Yuri Ivanovich Onufrijenko

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Yuri Onufrijenko
Yuri Onufrijenko
Country: Russia
Organization: Roscosmos
selected on January 25, 1989
Calls: 2 space flights
Start of the
first space flight:
February 21, 1996
Landing of the
last space flight:
June 19, 2002
Time in space: 389d 14h 46min
EVA inserts: 8th
EVA total duration: 42h 32min
retired on March 2004
Space flights

Yuri Ivanovich Onufrijenko ( Russian Юрий Иванович Онуфриенко , scientific transliteration Jurij Ivanovič Onufrienko ; born February 6, 1961 in Ryasnoe , Kharkiv Oblast , Ukrainian SSR ) is a former Russian cosmonaut of Ukrainian origin.

Onufrienko ended 1982, the School of pilots of the Air Force "WM Komarov" in Yeisk with a pilot engineering degree. He then served in the Soviet Air Force until he joined the cosmonaut corps . He has accumulated over 800 flight hours on various aircraft such as Aero L-29 , Sukhoi Su-7 , Sukhoi Su-17 (M1-4) and Aero L-39 .

He was selected as a potential cosmonaut in 1989. 1994 Onufrienko a degree in cartography at the Moscow State University .

In October 1996, Onufrijenko was awarded the Hero of the Russian Federation by a decree of the then Russian President Boris Yeltsin .

See also

Web links

Commons : Yuri Onufrijenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Онуфриенко Юрий Иванович at warheroes.ru (Russian)